BOOKS ON DECLARER PLAY
 | 25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer by Barbara Seagram • David Bird List Price: This book deals with the play of the cards as declarer, perhaps the most important part of the game. As usual in the '25' series, basic ideas on the strategies and tactics available to declarer are covered comprehensively in the early part of the book, while in later chapters, more advanced players will find ideas and topics that challenge their own understanding of the game. . . . read more. |
 | A Bridge To Inspired Declarer Play by Julian Laderman List Price: Recognize what technique to use on each particular deal. This book addresses the thought processes that novice declarers must develop and practice. What features of a bridge hand lead an expert to select the correct line of play from all those available? The carefully chosen examples in this book will help advancing players to recognize those features and take action accordingly. . . . read more. |
 | A Bridge to Simple Squeezes by Julian Laderman List Price: Most bridge players find squeeze play the hardest technique to learn. It has unavoidable technical aspects that for many make it impenetrable. In this award-winning book, the reader is taken slowly and carefully through the basics, and by the end will be confident that they too can execute simple squeezes at the table. This second edition reflects many enhancements and improvements made to the or . . . read more. |
 | Avoidance Play (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Endplays For Everyone by David Bird List Price: This straightforward book makes endplays understandable. The endplay is an aspect of declarer play at bridge that many players think is beyond them. Yet while endplays can be extremely complex, the basic principles are not. Five years ago, David Bird wrote Bridge Squeezes for Everyone, a book about an even more complex topic that has become a modern classic. Using the same straightforward, conver . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Squeezes for Everyone by David Bird List Price: Did you always think squeezes were too difficult? Or perhaps you know the basics but now you want to learn about more complex and advanced squeeze positions? If you fit either of these categories, or even if you just want to improve your understanding of an important aspect of declarer play, this book is for you. . . . read more. |
 | Challenge Your Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: In this quiz book, the well-known author, Danny Roth, has compiled a set of challenges that will test readers' ability as a declarer, and at the same time, introduce some stratagems that may be unfamiliar. The hands are tougher than those in Focus on Declarer Play, and they are not presented in the same teaching mode, rather, they are in a random order as one might encounter them at the bridge ta . . . read more. |
 | Clues from the Bidding at Bridge by Julian Pottage List Price: Defenders invariably base their strategy on declarer's bidding. Yet so often declarers fail to return the compliment: they flail away without a thought of what the defenders have or have not done. Just one bid from an opponent may tip off declarer to the winning play - perhaps warning of a bad break or that a finesse is doomed. When the defenders have made several bids the declarer may be able to . . . read more. |
 | Declarer Play The Bergen Way How to Make More Contracts by Marty Bergen List Price: Techniques every declarer must know. 2005 Bridge Book of the Year. Guaranteed to do wonders for your bridge game, this book shows you the right way to size up the hand when dummy is tabled. One of the most popular bridge authors of our time, Marty Bergen, Mr. POINTS SCHMOINTS, explains: What to count, and how to do it the easy way - How to find extra entries when they are most needed - Why squeez . . . read more. |
 | Eddie Kantar Teaches: Topics in Declarer Play at Bridge by Eddie Kantar List Price: Kantar's two-book series on Bridge Defense ( Modern Bridge Defense and Advanced Bridge Defense) won an ABTA Book of the Year Award in 1999. This new book addresses a more popular topic, using a similar approach. While not a comprehensive treatment of declarer play at bridge, this book deals with specific topics exhaustively, and will be invaluable to the improving player: finesses (when and how t . . . read more. |
 | Elimination Plays (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Eliminations & Throw-ins (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Endplays & Coups (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Entry Management (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Entry Management (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: For most intermediate bridge players, declarer play is both fascinating and challenging, but too often they are left after a hand is over with the sinking feeling that they could have done better. In this book, acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on play: mishandling communications, making errors involving trumps, failing to take advantag . . . read more. |
 | How To Play Card Combinations by Mike Lawrence List Price: 52 hands presented as problems. Discusses the proper way to play each combination. Each hand concludes with further analysis. . . . read more. |
 | How To Read Your Opponents' Cards by Mike Lawrence List Price: Each chapter takes a principle, helps the reader understand it, and gives examples, plus a quiz on the subject. A great help if you seem to guess right half the time or less when playing the dummy. Winner of Book of the Year award. . . . read more. |
 | Misplay These Hands With Me by Mark Horton List Price: The late Terence Reese, perhaps the greatest bridge writer of all time, introduce the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing in his classic Play These Hands with Me. In this wry homage to the master, Horton leads the reader through a plausibly logical line of play on each instructive deal, but one that ends in failure. In each post-mortem, the 'expert' realizes how he could have improved on . . . read more. |
 | More Declarer Play The Bergen Way How to Make More Contracts by Marty Bergen List Price: Sequel to the award-winning book. A proven approach to winning! Demonstrates and illustrates the right way to think about the hand when dummy is tabled. After reading this book, you'll be delighted when the tricks start rolling in. One of the most popular bridge authors of our time, Marty Bergen, Mr. Points Schmoints, explains: - How to give yourself an extra chance to make the hand - When to dra . . . read more. |
 | Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner by Patrick Jourdain List Price: Patrick Jourdain's Problem Corner has been a popular regular feature of BRIDGE Magazine in the UK for many years. This collection of challenging declarer-play problems has been selected from the best of the material that has appeared there, and will be welcomed by advanced players. . . . read more. |
 | Planning in Suit Contracts (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning in Suit Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play Reese introduced the 'over the shoulder' approach to describing bridge hands in this classic book, and it was an immediate success. In this book, the reader can follow the thought processes of an expert through the bidding and play of many fascinating hands. First published in 1960, it . . . read more. |
 | Planning Notrump Contracts (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Planning the Play in Notrump (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Positive Declarer Play at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more. |
 | Reese on Play by Terence Reese List Price: This book is one of the all-time classics, a landmark in the development of bridge, especially in the field of card play. First published in 1948, it is now back in print after being unavailable for a number of years. In it, the author reveals what counts in play and defense and shows the reader how to join the ranks of the experts. This is a book that every improving bridge player must own. . . . read more. |
 | Safety Plays (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Safety Plays (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Test Your Play As Declarer - Vol. 1 by Paul Lukacs • Jeff Rubens List Price: Two famous internationalists teach you how to analyze and play out the difficult hands that separate the neophytes from the prize winners. . . . read more. |
 | Test Your Play As Declarer - Vol. 2 by Paul Lukacs • Jeff Rubens List Price: Two famous internationalists teach you how to analyze and play out the difficult hands that separate the neophytes from the prize winners. . . . read more. |
 | The Bridge World's Test Your Play by Jeff Rubens List Price: North America's oldest and most prestigious bridge magazine, The Bridge World features a monthly column entitled 'Test your Play', which presents difficult problems in declarer play for readers to solve. This is a collection of some of the best of these from the last twenty years; if you can solve even half of them, you may be one of the best declarers in the world! . . . read more. |
 | The Extra Edge in Play at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess champion, once said: "You have found a good move - fine - now look for a better one." The same advice holds true in bridge. If you settle for second best, you will not achieve your full potential. Through a series of problems that are both fresh and a genuine test of skill, the reader is offered the chance to become accustomed to looking for that extra edge. Whe . . . read more. |
 | The Simple Squeeze (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Tricks With Finesses (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Tricks With Trumps (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | Virtual European Championship (Part 1) Dynamic Declarer Play by Krzysztof Martens List Price: Huge collection of advanced play deals in a simulated European Championship. . . . read more. |
 | Virtual European Championship (Part 2) Dynamic Declarer Play by Krzysztof Martens List Price: Huge collection of advanced play deals in a simulated European Championship. . . . read more. |
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